"But we need more than just increased funding, students and parents want increased accountability to investigate corruption at the local level and the governor has proposed legislation that will accomplish that," Shirk said in an email.

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However, he said he's reluctant to raise taxes and said much of what he wants to do can be achieved with better accounting.

"The first conversation is are we managing our budget well? Are we funding things that need to be funded?" Jealous asked. "Have we audited our budget recently? Not as recently as we should have."

On drugs, Jealous said that while Hogan has declared a state of emergency for the opioid crisis, he hasn't actually done enough.

"We need 10 crisis centers at a minimum across the state. We need to have a rapid response team in every county," Jealous said. "Baltimore City should not be rationing the life-saving drug naloxone when our health commissioner says it's costing us lives."

"The Hogan administration has... provided more than $500 million over the last three years to fight the heroin and opioid crisis and for substance abuse efforts and Maryland was the first state in the nation to declare a state of emergency in response," Shirk said. "These are serious issues and Governor Hogan is meeting them head on. We don’t need more politicians, we need leaders."

Jealous said much of the money needed to add crisis centers and response teams could be recouped by ending the war on drugs. He said Hogan's push for truth-in-sentencing measures would only lead to expensive incarcerations, based on examples from elsewhere in years pase.

"First thing's first, we have to decide that educating our kids is as important as locking up somebody else's kids," Jealous said